Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas (x) McCracken, Sr.
Will Book E, page 339 · dated 16 June 1833 · proved May 1835
Thomas McCracken named wife Priscilla and seven children and appointed son Thomas McCracken executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas (x) McCracken, Sr. (printed THOMAS (x) McCRACKEN, SR.)
- Dated
- 16 June 1833
- Proved
- May 1835 court
- Family named
- Priscilla (wife); Thomas McCracken (son); Joseph (All my children); Robert (All my children); Stephen (All my children); Alexander (All my children); Abigail (All my children); Martha (All my children); Thomas (All my children)
- Executor
- Thomas McCracken (son)
- Witnesses
- John Hart; Samuel McCracken
- In the paper’s words
- “weak of body”
Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.
Where to find it
- Orange County Will Book E, page 339.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 159.
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
